Reuters reports caretaker president Ghannouchi will form a government on Saturday.

The Guardian, one of the recipients of the full Wikileaks archive: Tunisia: The WikiLeaks connection. "Mohamed Ghannouchi, former PM now acting as president, described in WikiLeaks cables as well-liked and respected"

Laila Lalami, a Los Angeles-based writer from Morocco, wrote on Twitter, "Please stop trying to give credit to WikiLeaks, or Twitter, or YouTube for the toppling of Ben Ali. The Tunisian people did it." Later, she tweeted, "The Internet facilitates communication, but it alone doesn't keep people in the streets for four weeks."

HuffPo Paris: How Tunisian Facebookers Will Change Newsrooms. Describes how Al Jazeera's and France24's footage came exclusively from social media users for the first 2 weeks, and how journalists attempted to uphold standards in their reporting.

Today's events mark the first time in recent memory that popular protests have felled a leader in the Arab world. But the celebration in Tunisia has been muted. It is unclear whether Tunisians will accept the leadership of Mr Ghannouchi — nicknamed "Mr Oui-Oui" for his subservience to Mr Ben Ali — or whether the protests will continue. The revolution that toppled Mr Ben Ali may not be over yet.

Marginal Revolution: The paradox of Tunisian water policy: Tunisia takes first place in water quality in the Arab world, and was, under Ben Ali, the least corrupt country in the Maghreb.

Monday, January 10, 2011

The meme that opponents of Obama are crazy and dangerous has been an explicit Democratic Party campaign strategy for over two years.

Here is just a partial list of events in which the left-wing and Democratic Party media operation has immediately blamed right-wing rhetoric, only to be proven wrong when the facts finally came out: Bill Sparkman, Amy Bishop, The Fort Hood Shooter, The IRS Plane Crasher, The Cabbie Stabbing, and The Pentagon Shooter.

The facts will come out about the shooting and murder by Loughner. Until then, we’ll be subjected to the sickness of people who seek to use the crime to their political advantage and who will worry about the facts later on, if ever.